[redwood]

The anti-NGO sentiment resonates with me. I spent the last year living and working in Bangladesh and it's the same story. People get educated to get jobs for foreign aid agencies, not to innovate. This creates a very clear, wide-spread systematic culture of dependency.

Clearly aid agencies are doing good things sometimes. And there are NGOs moving toward fostering business and accountability rather than traditional giving. Still, a lot of work needs to be done. Basically aid should be reserved for post-emergency situations, I believe. Multi-decade aid programs are not going to lead to self-sustaining economies. At least not if some major changes happen.